絵本真書太閤記
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book, published in 1887 by Ishikawa Shōshichi, illustrating the popular biography of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi for a general reading audience. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of samurai in armour, rendered with dense hatching and framed panels with vertical Japanese captions. A designer might draw on their bold figure silhouettes, patterned armour and ink-line texture for historical or Japanese-inspired graphics.
